Swipe only works after mouse click

Swipe only works after mouse click

I have a site at


You can swipe left and right to get to the other pages.
The trouble is the swipe is very inconsistent. I have tested on Chrome, and firefox on the desktop
and android tablets.
After every couple of swipes the next swipe fails. I have noticed that it seems to be OK at least on the desktop
If the user first clicks the mouse button on the text area of the page and then swipes.

To see the issue start swiping left on the above page. After the first or second swipe the next will fail
unless clicking the mouse first.

I have tried triggering a click event of page show as a work around but that does not seem to work.
Has any one else seen this behaviour ?

I think it would be too obvious for it to be a bug in jquery.mobile.

Thanks